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Welcome

Welcome to GeoCat Map, and thank you for being a GeoCat customer.

GeoServer is a class-leading application for the publishing of spatial information using international and industry standards. GeoServer provides direct access to feature and raster content, rich cartographic visualization, and geospatial processing. GeoServer integrates smoothly into your existing GIS infrastructure working with database, file, and cloud storage.

GeoCat is a proud open source company, and a core-contributor of GeoServer project. This GeoCat Map release includes the latest GeoServer, GeoWebCache, GeoTools, JAT-EXT, and JTS Topology Suite technologies.

Release notes:

Contact GeoCat bv for more information on this product and the advantages of commercial open source.

Note

This document includes creative commons attribution license content from the GeoServer User Manual, and GeoServer and GeoTools release announcements. Material has been adapted to reflect the GeoCat Map product and visual appearance.

User experience

The big change is the introduction of a context-driven user-experience.

  1. Starting from the "global" welcome page:

    Global context

  2. The "search" available on the right hand side is used to quickly locate published data.

    Search results

  3. Selecting a search result establishes the "context" (shown as breadcrumbs along the top of the screen). The page contents update to reflect the current context, with preview, links and downloads close at hand.

    There is a small context-menu with short cuts to common actions, and the breadcrumbs can be used to navigate back up to the workspace or global level.

    Layer context

  4. When logged in as an administrator additional short cuts and information is available on the page, and in the context-menu.

    Context menu (logged in as admin)

  5. The traditional application top-level menu is now available long the top of the screen.

    Items indicate which context they work with using a small icon to their right (in the following styles will restrict the style list to those used by the current layer).

    A few items have moved to allow the GeoServer menu to list all the pages available to anonymous users.

    Top-level menu (logged in as admin)

User Interface Theme

The GeoServer 3 user theme improvements are greatly informed by visual appearance of our GeoCat Map and GeoCat Live products.

  • Full responsive with dark mode support.

  • Responsive user interface adoption of two-column form layout (inspire by GeoNetwork setting page).

    Responsive Two Column Form

For GeoCat Map Theme:

  • Minor changes to logos and colors

  • GeoCat Map displayed in the toolbar, updated with release version displayed when logged in. This functionality can be disabled (or replaced using) GEOSERVER_NODE_OPTS application property.

    GeoCat Map Theme

For GeoCat Live Theme:

  • Minor changes to logos and colors, inclusion of Intern font

  • GeoCat Live displayed in toolbar, with update version displayed when logged in.

    GeoCat Live Theme

Services

OGC API Maps

OGC API Maps is a modern web API for map images, following the OGC API - Maps 1.0.0 standard alongside the traditional Web Map Service.

  • Dataset map: Draw several collections into a single map, choosing and ordering them with the collections parameter.
  • Filtering: Maps can be filtered using CQL2 Text, CQL2 JSON or ECQL, using the queryable attributes of each collection.
  • Conformance: Optional conformance classes can be enabled or disabled from the Mapping Services settings page, see conformance tables above.

The map preview provides a palette to select collections, with the first one drawn at the bottom, and a filter for the map content.

OGC API Maps dataset map preview

Service Configuration

With the gradual introduction of OGCAPI services having one page for each service has changed to allow services on a topic to be managed together.

  • Raster Services

    Configuration settings for raster data and imagery, including OpenGIS Web Coverage Service.

    Optional: Use WCS Service Control to disable prior versions of WCS to only support the latest WCS 2.0.1.

  • Vector Services

    Configuration settings for vector services as a whole, OpenGIS Web Feature Service, and OGCAPI Features.

  • Mapping Services

    Configuration settings for mapping and visualization, including OpenGIS Web Map Service and OGC API Maps.

    Although WMS Service Control is available both WMS 1.1.1 and WMS 1.3.0 are in active use, with many clients preferring the older WMS 1.1.1 specification lon/lat order.

  • Processing Services

    Service configuration for processing and execution services including OpenGIS Web Processing Service.

  • Tiling Services

    Configuration settings for tiling services including Web Map Tile Service.

Version control

Use Disabled versions to enable/disable older or unsued versions. For example this can be used to configure WFS provide only the latest WFS 2.0.0 and OGCAPI Features service.

Vector Services

Conformance tables

OGC API services, such as OGC API Features and OGC API Maps, list the conformance classes they offer in a conformance table on their service settings page.

Each conformance class can be left in its default state, enabled, or disabled:

  • Default follows the level of the standard: approved standards are enabled, while draft and community standards are disabled.
  • Conformance classes that are inactive are shown greyed out.
  • Related settings are taken into account, for example disabling all filter languages also disables filtering, and strict mode disables community standards.

Conformance tables for CQL2 and ECQL filter languages

Security

OAuth2 OpenID Connect (OIDC)

Single Sign On (SSO) integration has been reworked for OAuth2 accepting users (and roles) from external OIDC identity providers

If you previously made use of OAuth2 support (for Google, Azure, GitHub) or made use of Keycloak SSO migration will be required.

JWT Headers

The JWT Headers authentication filter accepts users (and roles) from a JSON Web Token provided in a request header, typically by a proxy or gateway in front of GeoServer.

New configuration options:

  • Allow the header to log in the built-in "admin" account: unchecked for new filters.
  • Accepted issuers (iss): required when validating the token signature.
  • Trust a roles header that is not the validated token: only for use when a proxy always removes or overwrites that header.
  • Log sensitive information: used with the JWT_HEADERS_LOGGING logging profile when troubleshooting, not for production.

New filters validate the token signature and expiry by default. Existing filters keep their stored settings, and the GeoServer log reports any filter that should be reviewed.

Contact support: For assistance reviewing your JWT Headers configuration.

JWT Headers configuration options